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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Lyons Corner House, Tottenham Court Road, London 1934 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky East End, London ca. 1934 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky East End, London ca. 1936 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Charing Cross Road ca. 1936 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
"Although born in Vienna, the photographer and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky, who has died at 104, forged his career in the UK where, as a Jew and a socialist, he took refuge in the 1930s. His best-known photographs remain those taken at dawn on Charing Cross Road in London at that time. The steam rising from the asphalt as cloth-capped workers lay the road surface ahead of the steamroller, and the whitish glow of milk bottles on a float, are eerie period essays in black and white, a paean to the dignity of labour."
"Suschitzky's father, Wilhelm, and mother, Adele (née Bauer), were secular Jews who owned a radical bookshop in Vienna. Wilhelm, a noted free-thinker, killed himself during the rise of nazism. Woflgang's elder sister, Edith (later Tudor-Hart), was also a photographer, and a great influence on her brother."
"Suschitsky left Vienna, and the Austrofascist regime that seized power in 1934, for Amsterdam, where he met and married Helena "Puck" Voûte, with whom he opened a photography studio. By 1935 the marriage was ailing and he left for London. There, he met film director Paul Rotha and they began to work together."
"Suschitsky was committed to photographing his adopted homeland and to helping others escape from his former one, including two cousins who, having been held at Dachau, were eventually released, only to be interned on the Isle of Man."
"Suschitsky believed that great photography is 'a combination of the right choice of detail, the elimination of all that is inessential and the right moment that makes the picture.' He demystified his technique still further by adding, 'I was always quite content to be a good craftsman.'
– extracts from the 2016 obituary in the London Guardian
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Charing Cross Road ca. 1936 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Sheep in Hyde Park, London 1937 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Near Monument Station, London 1938 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Victoria Bus Terminal 1939 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Hurlingham Club, London 1939 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Trafalgar Square 1942 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Hampstead Heath Fair 1949 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Easter Fair, Hampstead Heath 1964 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Fair on Streatham Common, London 1976 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Rupert Street Market, Soho, London 1980 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |